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PLEASE MENTION WHY THIS IS BEING DOWNVOTED ? WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT THIS NOT A RELEVANT QUESTION ?
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user644745Jul 3 '12 at 19:26

Not that is not relevant, I guess people are downvoting it because it is not about software development (off-topic). It probably should be on SuperUser or ServerFault.
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ClaudioJul 3 '12 at 19:31

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We faced just this issue yesterday - the problem is because of the leap second on June 30 2012. A linux kernel component that manages sleep times isn't updated to the correct time and this causes extremely high CPU usage for Java processes. Related question on serverfault and my fix I derived from it (for Debian):